From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: XServe G5 and Linux ? From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Harald Welte Cc: linuxppc-dev list In-Reply-To: <20040209103652.GM18913@obroa-skai.de.gnumonks.org> References: <20040208180539.GG18479@sunbeam.de.gnumonks.org> <1076299574.887.118.camel@gaston> <20040209103652.GM18913@obroa-skai.de.gnumonks.org> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1076360199.835.1.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 07:57:10 +1100 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 21:36, Harald Welte wrote: > I see. It's just that the XServe G5 is sold cheaper than the XServe G4 > (at least the dealers have a lower price). That's why I somehow feel > reluctand of buying an old machine. Well, I don't quite recommend G4s in general any more ;) > Also, I can positively confirm that we've had a G5 XServe at the 20C3 > (CCC Chaos Communication Congress) at the end of december. It was used > to relay the A/V streams of the lecture halls into the congress network. Strange... I'm quite sure they are only due to shipping about now. > So either the CCC has received an unreleased machine, or they are > already sold. > > > > 1) Does anybody have experience running linux on the current G5 > > > Xserve? > > > > I expect the kernel to mostly work, +/- minor adaptations that should > > be fairly trivial hopefully, except maybe for the thermal control. > > But then it depends what they changed of the chipset. The above is > > assuming the chipset is just the new northbridge rev and same IO chip. > > mh. Unfortunately you're in .au now. This means I cannot just buy one > of them and ship it to you for getting that initial work done. > Shipping, Taxes, Customs Offices, ... would definitely over-complicate > everything. Right, on the other hands, there are chances that it just work :) And I will probably get access to one soon anyway. Ben. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/